The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-31
The Steam Yacht, with It's Many Elegant
and CostlyAppurtenances,B Becoming Com
paratiyely Common Piece of Property,
A Graphic Story of the Woes of Shop
ping and the Pertness of Sales-Girls.
Strange Tales That Could Be Told by Babes
il They Could Talk-Clara Makes DiscOv-
cry and Enjoys Herself In Hair Store.
special to the Ipdisuapolis Journal.


NEW YORK, July sc. AS surely as the sum-
mer comes around there is annually developed
a new hot-weather girl. How she is generated
is mystery. But she is a palpable entity. and
she alway has some striking characteristics TO
distinguish ner from the girl Of preceding
sons. This time she is a caresser. This quality
Is quite innocent and maidenly, for her caresses
are bestowed, SO far public practice goes,
upon members of her own sex. / have seen her
already at Saratoga, Newport and Long Branch.
and hear that she is at every other American
resort of any account. Her popularity lies in
the coddiing of girls and women with whom she
is familiar. In dialogue, she gently chucks
the other one under the chin. strokes her hair
pulls her pats her shoulder, doing it with
manner of sweet ingenuousness, as though it
was an unconscious expression of an affectonate
nature. Each summer has it's new fashions in
manners among the polite, and the caresser is
the output of 1887.
As million aires become plentier in New York
1t Is difficult to imagine how people who are
bound to be singular and exclusive will find
diversions sacred to themselves. Already steam
yachting, that sport which. few years ago, was
restricted to half dozen families, is compare
lively common. That to say not less than
New Workers board. The Astors and the
Vanderbilts set the fashion. and many follow
as are able. 1t is considered exclusively desir-
able, not TO go to of the popular resorts, no
matter how generally favored or costly they
may be. but to sail clear away from society on
yacht, leaving the rest of wealth's world to
discuss and envy them. The exclusive character
OF steam yachting be more strikingly
demonstrated hv
from the statistics on this branch of marine in
formation. There only seventy five steam
yachts over one hundred feet in length in all
America None of these boats make less than
fifteen miles an hour, and most of them are cap
able of a transatlantic trip. Several of them,
like James Gordon Benefits Namouna have
been around the world. The Namouna is two
hundred and twenty-six feet long over all.
The largest steam yacht yet built
is William K. vanderbilt's new boat. the
Alva. which is two hundred and eighty-five feet
long It costs the owner of the Alva upwards
of 81. 200 month to run the Alva ON an ocean
voyage, wltho1F spending any money on prosis4
ions for himself and guests. AS a fashionable
thing cannot its purpose without being
displayed, the cost Of entertaining guests enters
the biggest bill in steam yachting 1t is said
that Vanderbilt on the Alva and Jay Gould on
the Atalanta frequently spend 5000 day for
their sport. When the Alva goes to sea she car
ries pilot, two engineers, two fremen, a stew
ard, a cook and seven sailors. Besides these
there are servan is in proportion to the number
OF guests. The boat is not unjustly called
floating palace, for it is SO arranged internally
that the owner and his friends may live almost
exactly as they do on shore. The dining saloon,
for instance, is 18x31 feet in measurement
There is well-stoeked library. ten suites of
rooms, in each of which is included n sitting
room, chamber and bathroom. And there is, be-
sides, feature which is probably to be found on
no other yacht in the world-a nursery for chill
children and governesses.
"Who shall depict the woes of shopping in
this broiling weather2 Andzthere is lots of it to
be DONE Husband goes to the Adirondacks for
a few weeks, the boys have their outing, you
yourself must take the nurse and baby to the
seaside. and for each and all of these expedi-
tions a job of buying must be done. The stores
are simply suffocating. The girls behind the
counters are so occupied in discussing their last
nights adventures, the coming evenings per-
formances that you get scant attention. A lady
half dead with rushing about, buying, match
ing ordering and so on, came at last into one
of our big emporiums and asked for Oriental
lace
Further along" answered Miss Fresh, with
out looking up and 1 told Henry / would not
think of such thing, and sez he to mel =
Oriental lace if you please" to second girl.
'.Narrer wide the idea of him thinking SO
he kept chatting and knderhintedi that's
all the narrer we got. Il bet a dollar / get a
letter to the house tonight. Say Jimmy what be
put lace sleevesl No, han't got it that width.
II bought some here lately, and you had
great quantity. If you will spend time to look
you may find it; otherwise shall see if the pro-
prietor will more
"Well. never. jimmy, have we got any lace
that width
mo; you needn't to look Hurrying aside
But the letter that he looked for never camel |
Ny poor friend staggered off, and lurched up |
against the hosiery counter. An animated con-
versation was here going on between four of the |
clerkesses and cash girl.
Have you this style of gentlemen's hose in |
No. 10p
counter" and the girl turns away, humming |
.Bnt the letter that he looked for never came" |
How many pairsl Fouri Four times 80 is |
81 %. Cash! Cash! But the letter that he |
looked for never came CASH. Say, En-; |
what's for tonight!l Cash!, What KEEP |
yerll There; 81. % out of So. [But the letter
that he looked for never came. u"
However, if these are the discomfortS of buy |
ing at this season, the bargains are delightful to
the female heart There was never a summer |
when so much could De got for 60 little
genuine adventure in July was enjoyed by /
a lady whom know. 1t proved that the babies |
of enormous wealth could tell strange stories if |
they could talk. My friend went in pursuit of /
a cook. She had chased this animal to a lair |
n East Sixteenth street, where, in towering |
GEAR tenement house dwelt uncounted families. |
She had passed through paved court, in which |
A dripping hydrant had formed hideous pool |
and about the Shiny edges played dirty, miser- |
able children, grimy, unkempt little hoodlums |
but in the of one of the biggest and ilthiest.
a girl of dozen years, was a sickly child of as |
many months, that attracted her attention. 1t |
was angel-fair little creature, and the pale
gold hair shone in that dismal court, carefully
had II been kept. The tiny fingers that lay list
lessly on a grmy old Tag of a petticoat were I'M
sullied, and altogether the baby exotic
among weeds. The lady wondered, as she